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8 <br />(g) A license issued pursuant to this section shall be revoked by the county manager if <br />the licensee ceases for 30 consecutive days operating a massage business at the location <br />required to be stated in the application for license pursuant to subsection (b)(2) of this <br />section. <br />(h) Any person whose application for a license is denied by the county manager <br />pursuant to subsection (d) of this section or revoked pursuant to subsection (f) or (g) of <br />this section may appeal such decision to the board of commissioners. An appeal is taken <br />by filing written notice of such appeal with the clerk to the board of commissioners <br />within ten days following the date of the decision. The board of commissioners shall set <br />the appeal for hearing in the manner provided by section 8-37. The board may affirm, <br />modify or reverse the county manager's decision. <br />(Ord. of 11-4-1985, § 1-3, eff. 11-4-1985; Ord. of 3-20-1991, eff. 3-20-1991) <br />Sec. 8-34. Licensing of massage practitioners. <br />(a) No person shall engage in the business or profession of massage unless such person <br />shall have first applied for and received the license provided by this section. A license <br />issued pursuant to this section is a privilege license issued to the applicant only and is not <br />transferable. <br />(b) The application for the license required by this section shall be upon a form <br />approved by the county manager and shall be filed with the clerk to the board of <br />commissioners. Such application shall be given under oath and shall contain the <br />following information: <br />(1) The name of the applicant, any aliases ever used by the applicant, the age, the sex, <br />social security number (optional) and past military identification number of the applicant; <br />the residence address of the applicant and the residence addresses of the applicant for the <br />ten years preceding the date of the application; <br />(2) A complete statement of the previous business or occupation of the applicant for the <br />two years immediately preceding the date of application, including any massage <br />establishment experience; <br />(3) A complete statement of all convictions of the applicant for any crime listed in <br />section 8-33(b)(3); <br />(4) A complete statement of any revocation of any license granted by any governmental <br />unit to the applicant to engage in the business or profession of massage; and <br />(5) The date and place of the applicant's birth and the names of the applicant's parents. <br />(c) The applicant shall submit, as part of the application required in subsection (b) of <br />this section, two recent photographs of the applicant's head and shoulders, of a size and <br />quality prescribed by the county manager. The information required by this subsection <br />shall be provided at the applicant's expense. <br />(d) The clerk to the board of commissioners shall transmit a copy of the application to <br />the sheriff for an investigative report. If after completing the investigation of the <br />applicant using the information obtained from the applicant required in subsection (b) of <br />this section, the sheriff shall deem it necessary to positively identify the applicant in order <br />to confirm a fact necessary for the applicant to be licensed, the sheriff shall conduct a DCI <br />criminal history of the applicant. The sheriff shall inform the clerk to the board of commissioners <br />of the results of the DCI inquiry. The sheriff shall then present the information upon which <br />he has made this determination to one of the judges of the district court in the 15B <br />judicial district. If the judge shall determine, from the information presented by the <br />